Memorial Duty: Pray for our boys who still sit in ‘dark holes’!

I listened to “KT” McFarland – senior national security analyst for Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and now for FOX News – some time ago as she commented on the sad state of affairs with the original mission objective in Afghanistan, long ago accomplished. We have now what is termed “mission creep,” finding things to do with taxpayer funds by the billions. We pay pederasts and they play with their young boys. We pay profiteers and help them harvest their heroin.

So there is no end in sight, no objective, no light at the end of the tunnel.

Then she made a comment which struck a note of sincerity not usually seen in those who espouse globalism as a future utopian goal. She said, “… we owe it to our boys, our young men and women [her daughter is a Navy officer], to bring them home…”! What she was expressing was the critical need to have a ‘strategic end in sight,’ to have and give hope… “they face a very certain danger over there!”

A Foreign Policy of Freedom, written by Ron Paul, reveals a record of 35 years of writing and testimony on the House floor by the one congressman who had in all those years never wavered from that truth!

That truth also served as a stark reality for Capt. Red McDaniel, who in writing about his years as a Viet Nam POW in Scars and Stripes, dedicated it to his “Bombardier-Navigator, Lt. James Kelly Patterson, and others like him who did not return.” To the best of my knowledge there is also at least one female soldier still missing from Dessert Storm 1990.

Former host of 60 Minutes, Monika Jensen-Stevenson, lost her job and nearly her life trying to research and write her book, Kiss The Boys Goodbye, dedicating it to “… those who might have come home… and to the men of U.S. Special Forces who wanted to go back and get them!”

Too bad there is little to no mention of the missing veterans by most cartoons or speeches, we hear around Memorial Day!

Lt. Kelly Patterson

Those boys who still sit in dark holes around the world… like Lt. Kelly Patterson, the “back seat’er” for Capt. ‘Red’ McDaniel. The two went down over N. Vietnam, May 19, 1967. There were 7 aircraft shot down that day. ‘Red’ returned in 1975 with the few who came back.

We always thought the back-seaters’ had been taken by Moscow, and sure enough, sometime around the early 1990’s, Kelly’s ID card came across the border of Kazakhstan, on the southern border of the former Soviet Union.

His ID card was followed shortly by a magazine that came across the border, which mentioned Kelly by name!

A few years before this information was obtained by interview, an organization called Task Force Russia, took the list of what they called discrepancy cases (known to have been captured alive but never came home), and presented it to the Russian government (Yeltsin at the time), with a request that they interface with their computer records.

This interface was to include all prisoners in Russia… crooks, bums, psycho, political, religious…

They did.

They got 41 matches.

One was Kelly Patterson!

Sources said Kelly was alive the date of this interview!

The Soviets had also said so!

Along with this was the matter of 1600 still alive at this time, from as long ago as WWII!

Russia offered their return.

The offer lasted less than one day.

During Yeltsin’s first state visit to America after becoming president of Russia, mid Atlantic, he was interviewed in the air… in the plane… mid-Atlantic… by Stone Phillips of NBC!

Said Yeltsin… “Sure we have American prisoners in Russia, we have had since WWII, and I am going to help you get them home!”

As soon as Yeltsin stepped off the plane in Andrews AFB in Washington, the Bush administration (Gen Scowcroft and others) told him, ‘If he wanted any help from this administration, to keep his mouth shut!’

So… the powers that be in the USA told Russia to clam up and not mention it again. The news carried the story one day… then buried it!

‘Kelly’ and the rest still sit in prisons!

There were many more we knew of in South East Asia also… by name… and location! But, apparently we do not want them home. They would embarrass the powers that be, the powers that have been for so very, very, long! The powers that continue to create tyranny ‘back home’!

What would the change be for these boys if they did get back to their families and homes… for whom they have wept for so many years?!

Will we ever have the chance to ask them?!

How about the 15,000 American boys, taken from German POW camps by the Russians, intentionally left to slave in the Soviet gulag by Eisenhower and ‘the Allies’, against the lone voice of Gen. Patton, who died suddenly.

I guess it is only a few more to add to the total.

Likely, only the families will notice and cry! They have wept for decades.

When will an ‘American Statesman’ president be elected, and put an end to this nightmare?

Many are willing… but few have been saved!

This is one ‘greatest SIN’ of America!

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An Epilogue…

John McCain, who, along with John Kerry, Republican and Democrat, each a candidate for president during the last few decades, Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum hand in hand, mocked on camera the families of POWs when they appeared in front of the committee, and even suppressed their evidence and information. That committee had been created to seek the truth about our fallen, our MIAs, and yes, known POWs!

One of these ‘Johns’, for that is who he is, when handed photographs and clear evidence of another POW crying out for help in SE Asia said to the courier, “destroy that, and if a word of this leaves this office, you will wish you had never been born.”

Many have died over the last few years, not to mention the POWs; many who tried to dig deeper into the perfidious actions of those who perpetrate this madness, this heinous and wicked act, which keeps these men from their families, from their homes, and from their country!

Sadly, some of the family members who heroically fought on over the years since their loved one’s capture… for many, many years… for decades,

… have given up on their country … their elected public servants… their faith… and finally… their own lives!

Many elected to office in this land, who would be kings, have blood on their hands… even to the office of president! However, the electorate can thank only themselves for returning the same perfidious ‘pigs to their mire’, year after year!

So I repeat… there are many SINS of our land:

One might think of the greatest sin, as neglecting the Mighty Hand which graced us with liberty and guiding posts; next, the destruction of the unborn, then the send off of our young men and now women, to receive and impart destruction without wisdom and the rule of law and Constitution!

But today and every day I cannot shake the plight of our boys left behind,

… the screams of the most horrible torture? No;

… the pain of loneliness? No;

… the ravages of sickness and broken body? No;

… not those… not really the worst yet.

But, the unspeakable thoughts they must endure:

… of being left behind by those who swore to never leave them behind,
… to slowly hear of the state of affairs through leaks and cracks through the dark wall of confinement, intentional and unintended!

It is at once the saddest reality for America, as well as the most pure torture which can be inflicted upon her countrymen and their loved ones.

It is for certain that history should not remember the perpetrators of this crime as countrymen!

But let our history hold up high and never forget such countrymen as we have been blessed with, who kept their oaths to such an undeserved and tragic end!

The electorate, when the roll is called one day, will bear the greatest guilt. Congress could have been recalled at any time by the people.

The presidents, the judges, and even the Supreme Court likewise could have been removed by Congress, if the latter had kept their oaths!

Each day however, we enter a new time frame. Each and every morning we can arise and turn around the state of affairs. But only if the people awaken in time.

May the Lord keep us, those loved ones made to bear unspeakable suffering, and this land, in the dark but yet hopeful days ahead!

Not a day goes by but, in addition to the supplications we are enjoined to raise up on high for faith and support, life and health, direction and wisdom, I cannot but raise up these betrayed but not forgotten… these ‘loved in heart’… but untouchable… these hopeless wrecks of body made so by their own countrymen, who, but for that great animating spark of faith in God, and love for liberty, home and family, would long ago have sunk into the abyss of history!

May they not only just be remembered… not only just upheld in spirit… but, by their countrymen and families, upheld one day in person!

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“Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding it’s parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons to the inclemency of the weather.”
PREAMBLE to the H.R. 97 , which passed both house and senate.

Red McDaniel returned in 1973 not 1975. Lt. Patterson was a ‘right seater’ not a ‘back seater’. McDaniel was a pilot of an A-6 Intruder and Patterson was the bombardier/navigator (BN). They sat side-by side in the A-6.

Correct on the date misprint. Thank-you.
However, Lt. Patterson was a ‘back seater’ in the sense that all the navigators were given that euphemism. It is not intended as a specific description of his position in the plane but it was used to denote his skill set as being more technical than the pilot’s, his capture more relished by the Soviets! The ‘back seaters’ did not come home once captured! In personal conversations with McDaniels this distinction is also acknowledged and used.

After viewing one of the clips below which shows then Senator John Kerry (now Secretary of State John Kerry!) sitting on ‘their royal dais’, together with John McCain, during some of the hearings in question, it must be stated, to ‘let the truth be known’, that the ‘John’ referred to as threatening the courier trying to deliver good ‘Intel’, was, according to a very credible source, as one and the same ‘John Kerry’!

It is indeed sad that such perfidious oath-breakers are still in such high places! It is even more chilling for our POWs and MIAs!

Here are a couple summary clips, from the many which are available online:

One of the worst things that happens to a country when it goes to war is that a big number of the heroes of a generation die or are broken, and the scum very often–“left behind”–jump into the vacuum that the patriots left. This is surely part of the dynamic of what happened when America was sucked into the Viet Nam War. Then you get a sorry sort like John Kerry who went to Viet Nam, hated it, came back, and used his soldier status to advance his political “anti war” career. The military has always been a place to “grow heroes”, and many good men have come from the military to become leaders in civil government. But there are many who were injured that returned and they are never the same and have had a difficult time healing. America today is at a critical crossroads as to which ways we will go as a nation….paralyzed with pity parties for our condition versus hard work to fix what is wrong; easy unrestrained sexual immorality or God honoring morality that comes with a cost; big government that runs our lives and encloses us in comfy cages versus a vigorous republic that gives us freedom to make our own choices, live with the consequences, and determine the path of our own lives and fortunes; healthy, treasured children brought up in a caring family that takes responsibility to bring them up to be reverent, grateful citizens and family members versus confused, emotionally and spiritually abused, angry children who have no hope left and no trust in anything; finally, confident, competent students with a work ethic, well educated in the truth and timeless principles of decency and service to others versus lazy slobs who take what they can get, complaining constantly, don’t ask for help or work to fix their faults, attacking those who want to work and make their lives better. In the end, the choices of how to live now are personal and they are our’s only. It follows that we have choices of who we hang out with, who we support, who we help and serve–and this is very important–because there are those who have been called by God to run for office and represent our best interests….and when we hang them out to dry, DON’T let go of some nickels to help pay for their campaigns, DON’T put up yard signs–tell our friends about them–doorbell and HELP THEM….they lose, and we do too. Yes there is pain and brokenness all around us; yes, a huge amount of effort is being expended by government and others to help–but this year, it is so important that good God-honoring citizens pick someone you like who is running for office and then HELP THEM! DON’T GIVE UP folks…..our children and grandchildren are depending on us….there is no one else that can save America for them…but us. I believe God hears our prayers, sees our struggles and our broken hearts, and if we persevere bravely, he will move his hand for us just as he did for the long-suffering King David! In the end times, this nation’s government may turn against God and Israel….but I believe there will still be whole states and regions that will stand up for what is right until we are taken up to be with the LORD or until he returns for us….let’s make sure we are ready and honoring him…right to THE END!!!!!

Also for the many soldiers of the cross who are risking their lives daily…http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2013/s13050122.htm Some real heart breaking news from Iran. This is the church Pastor BH Clendenen helped build. PLEASE PRAY FOR THE FORTY PASTORS IN PRISON, including an American. Five are facing deat penalities. Your giving has and does provide safe houses for some. LAST WEEK IN ATHENS AND IN TURKEY I met with some of these families…. PLEASE HELP US HELP THEM THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. http://www.intertnationalhumanitarianaid.org